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How Azerbaijan locked up climate and social justice advocate ahead of COP29. 4 November 2024. Azeri economist Farid Mehralizada has argued that his country’s reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and dangerous – he is now in prison ahead of the climate summit in Baku. What Trump got wrong on China, coal and climate.
Japan backs fossil fuels in Southeast Asian “zero emission” initiative
Oct 7, 2024 · Japan’s Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) supported 56 projects using fossil fuel technologies in Southeast Asia — including LNG and carbon capture. Participants of the inaugural summit of the Asia Zero Emission Community after their photo session ahead of the meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2023.
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
Feb 9, 2016 · Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way ...
Mapping vulnerability: why the IPCC's geography of climate risk is ...
Oct 3, 2022 · The IPCC defines vulnerability in its report as “the propensity or predisposition to be adversely affected” and “lack of capacity to cope and adapt”. The 3.3-3.6 billion figure corresponds to the estimated number of people that live in countries ranked in the two most vulnerable tiers of a five-tier classification system.
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Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
Chloé Farand, Author at Climate Home News
Chloé Farand. Chloé Farand is Climate Home News’ senior reporter. Her work has appeared in national publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the i paper and the BBC. Before joining Climate Home News, she worked for the investigative environmental outlet DeSmog UK and contributed to Business Green.
Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe
Aug 26, 2022 · One of the main problems of extreme drought in freshwater ecosystems are the impacts to biodiversity, explained Colvin. With lower water levels, pollutants become more concentrated, increasing their toxicity to wildlife. Combined with extreme temperatures, “anything living in those rivers is really struggling to survive,” she said.
Lessons from London’s 1952 fog could save millions today
Mar 3, 2017 · In December 1952, London experienced a catastrophe. As depicted in the Netflix series The Crown (which last year aired on Chinese streaming sites) the disaster seemingly came out of nowhere, as sunny blue skies suddenly gave way to a choking, blinding, fog that enveloped the city and was more severe than anything many had seen before.. Lack of visibility brought normal life to a halt, with ...
The Sahara gas pipeline faces problems, risking Nigerian taxpayers
Feb 14, 2024 · For over 20 years, Nigeria has been trying to build a pipeline that would bring gas through the Sahara desert to Algeria and on to customers in Europe. The hope is that it would raise gas exports and bring money into state coffers. The plan got a boost in 2021 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine left Europe scrambling for alternative sources of ...
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Plans to turn Europe’s biggest coal mine into a leisure lake prove divisive. 1 November 2024. Transition experts say repurposing Poland’s Bełchatów mine and power plant for renewables not recreation could bring more jobs, revenue and electricity.